Resin Jewellery Workshop with Macarena Bernal

Explore the awesomeness of resin! Make your own utterly unique resin jewellery in this two-day workshop. All levels of experience are welcome. Curious attitude essential, all materials included. Award-winning visual artist Macarena Bernal is renowned for her mindfully designed, handcrafted contemporary jewellery. Maca chooses Art Jewellery for its wearability-inducing interactivity. She is best known for Maca Links, which she pioneered in 2015.

Born in Chile, Maca has been based in New Zealand since 2012. She has studied jewellery in both Chile and New Zealand, including a Master’s Degree from the Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin School of Arts. You can see more of her work here. In her work, Maca explores alternative ideas of value in jewellery by capitalising on the bonds between jewellery and wearer, propounding jewellery as wearable forms of archive, or using it as a platform to make socio-political statements.

Class Size: 15 (max number of students)

Learn to mix, pigment & cast resin into silicone moulds, to make the components necessary to put together your own unique jewellery. Make several finished pieces of resin jewellery, with tutors’ guidance and take home extra components to continue making at home.

What materials will be needed?
A packed lunch, a thirst for creativity, clothes covering, ideas and dreams!

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